Gender, place, and identity of South Asian women / Moussa Pourya Asl, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Asl, Moussa Pourya, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asian literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.

South Asian literature (English).

South Asians in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

23 PDFs (302 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hershey, Pennsylvania : IGI Global, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This book studies contemporary literature of South Asian women in the light of the three concepts of gender, place, identity with the overall aim to contribute to the debates on gender identity and equality, spatial and social justice, women empowerment, marginalization and anti-discrimination measures"

Contents:

Section 1. Gendered geographies and geographies of gender. Chapter 1. (Dis)locating homeland: border(home)land in Taslima Nasreen's French lover and Monica Ali's brick lane ; Chapter 2. Spatial mobility, Pakistani muslim female subjectivity, and third-space between the secular and the religious in Kamila shamsie's broken verses ; Chapter 3. The partition: a heterotopic transcendence in self-identity of the bengali women migrants ; Chapter 4. Identity, roles, and choices within the space of the "home" in Vijay Tendulkar's Kamala ; Chapter 5. The maternal presence in diasporic women's lives in the works of Amulya Malladi and Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni: a focus on gender, identity, and place ; Chapter 6. Gender and space in flux in Anukrti Upadhyay's Bhaunri

Section 2. Reconstructing gender identity: power, memory, and resistance. Chapter 7. Rewriting of gender and sexuality in Tanwi Nandini Islam's bright lines: a Cixousian approach ; Chapter 8. Afghan women authors' discourses of resistance: contesting interplay between gender, place, and identity ; Chapter 9. Construction and reconstruction of space and identity: an analysis of Jasvinder Sanghera's Shame travels ; Chapter 10. Spaces of wrath: fractured identities, violated bodies, and silent women in the fiction of Shashi Deshpande ; Chapter 11. Uncovering the veiled experiences: women, memories, and the Bangladesh liberation war ; Chapter 12. Quest for space and identity of the East Indian diasporic female laborers: the selected poems of Ramabai Espinet's Nuclear seasons ; Chapter 13. Recreating "home" in exile: unfamiliar terrain, gender, and identity immigrant women's writings in nineteenth century India.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781668436288

OCLC:

1310045705